Shearman & Sterling‘s Houston office has only been open 15 months, but its midlevel associates there are so satisfied with the firm that the office topped city of Houston rankings on The American Lawyer’s 2019 Midlevel Associates Survey.

Shearman was first among 16 firms in Houston with enough surveys from the city to be ranked. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld leads the breakout for Dallas, which includes survey results from eight firms.